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Manuel Alcalá Kovalski
Education
B.A., Mathematical Economics (minor in Statistics)
University of Pennsylvania, Class of 2019
Philadelphia, PA
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- Relevant coursework: Probability, Mathematical Statistics, Stochastic Processes, Computer Programming, Econometrics, Microeconometrics, Microeconomic theory (Graduate), and Macro-modeling.
Work Experience
Senior Research Assistant
The Brookings Institution
Hutchins Center on Fiscal & Monetary Policy
Washington, D.C.
Current - 2019
- Authored the official Brookings branded R visualization package
- Led data science trainings on R package development, data manipulation in R using the Tidyverse, and version control using Git and GitHub for 65+ staff across the entire organization
- Developed an R Shiny app which scrapes over 20 economic research websites to centralize information on new working papers. This app is deployed weekly to sort and identify content for the Hutchins roundup blog since 2019.
- Creates data visualizations used in blog posts, conferences, and internal reports to communicate insights from macroeconomic data in an accessible manner.
- Produce and deliver parametrized reports to evaluate our GDP forecast during monthly Fiscal Impact Measure updates.
- Automates code testing, linting, and running using continuous integration with GitHub actions.
Summer Undergraduate Minority Research Scholar
Leonard Davis Institute
University of Pennsylvania
2018
- Independently analyzed data on 322,264 hospital admissions admissions using logistic regression in Stata
Undergraduate Researcher
Health Management and Policy Department
University of Miami
2018 - 2017
- Conducted data analysis on projects related to health services research using R, Stata, and Python